Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Dispatches from Mount MacGregor etate that Gen. Grant has been greatly Improved by his removal to the mountains. The swelling’ In the neck and the irritation of the throat have decreased, and the General has partially recovered his voice. Mrs. Richard Barton, living near New Brunswick, N. J., who has twice given birth to twins, is now the proud mother of triplets. The national bun defeat was held at Newark, N. J., w.th 5,000 Turners in attendance. The city was profusely decorated in honor of *11)0 occasion. Athletic contests and musical exercises were the order of the day. . A nine-story building at the corner of Greenwich and Heade streets, Now York City, formerly used as the Stuart sugar refinery, was partially destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at 8100,000; covered by insurance. At Newport, N. H., 870,000 worth of property went up in smoke, the Town Had, County Court House, two newspaper office?, and several other buildings being destroyed. An action instituted to wind up the affairs of the South Pennsylvania Hailroad syndicate, and for a distribution of its property, is on trial before Chief Justice Sedgwick, in New York. Counsel for the plaintiff claim that the railroad was built at a cost of 815,000,000, for which 810,000,000 of securities were issued, in violation of the laws of Pennsylvania. Among the defendants are William H. Vanderbilt, 'William K. Vanderbilt, William C. Whitney, S. B. Elkins, D. O. Mills, Andrew Carnegie, J. 1). Rockefeller, and Abram S. Hewitt. Gen. Grant’s condition is fair, says a dispatch from Mount McGregor. The swelling at his throat is of unusual prominence, whilo the interior of the throat is not matcrialy different from its condition the day ho arrived at Mount McGregor.